Sheet-collating



J. S. HEXTER.

SHEET COLLATING.

`APPLICATION FILED JuLYM. 1917. RENEwED JULY 8.19m. 1,330,871.

Patented Feb. 17,1920.

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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oFFIoE.

JULIAN S. HXTER, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO UNDERWOOD TYPE- WRITER COMPANY, F N YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

SHEET-COLLATING.

Application iled July 14, 1917, Serial No.180,583. Renewed July 8, 1919. Serial No. 309,477.

To all 'whomJ it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIAN S. HEXTER,V a citizen of the United States, residing in' Kansas City, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements -in Sheet- Collating, of which the following is a speci- .ment' sheet under the series of tabs.

tication.

This invention relates to collating'means whereby a plurality of work-.sheets may be rapidly assembled in any desired relative positions, so as to duplicate a vgiven Vpiece of work.

In the present invention, the ledger or record sheet is used as -a backing sheet or member, to which is attached 'a face sheet which may be a bill or statement sheet. The ledger or record sheet is provided with a series of tabs, preferably located in aline running'from top to bottom and stamped out of the body of the record sheet, so that Athe other work-sheet, such as a statement or bill sheet, can be easily and readily attached tothe record sheet. This is done by merely slipping the edge `of the -Srtae- 1s does not require the statement or bill sheet to have any tabs of its own,I and Iit can be adjusted for any lengthwise position of.

itself along the record sheet. Preferably the record sheet and the statement sheet have numbers along corresponding lengthwise margins to point out divisions of the sheets, such as line-spaces. In this way, any line on the statement or bill sheet can be located in register with a corresponding line or a different line of the ledger or record sheet.

The carbon sheet is secured between the record sheet andthe statement sheet by having one margin thereof reduced and entering two lengthwise slots .of the record sheet.

In this way, a collating unit may be rovided, which, when assembled, can be ept as a distinct piece of work which mayfbe written onsfrom time to time, accordin as the need for entering separate items arises.

f When a number of items, for example, ar-

the same record or ledger sheet, provided there is space .remaining thereon, so that the first line of the new bill or statement sheet w1ll come into register with the line next to the one last written on on the record or ledger sheet.

Other features and advantages will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure l is a perspective view, showing a collating unit, comprising a record sheet,

a carbon sheet and a statement sheet, as

assembled and in position on the platen of the typewriter.

Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical section through the collating unit, showing how the carbon and bill sheets are detacha'bly` attached to the backing or record sheet.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a collating unit, showing the three sheets in their assembled position.

The record sheet 1, which may be one of the leaves of a loose-leaf ledger, is used as a backing sheet to which the other sheets are attached. In the present case, but one other slots 6 and 7 in the record sheet 1, so that the tongue 4 may be inserted at the slot 7 and come out of the slot 6, thus passing in back of the band 5l. In this way, the carbon sheet 3 will, while detachably connected to the record sheet 1, normally be fixed tov Vthe record sheet, so as to move therewith as a unit. v

The bill or statement Sheet 2 is also detachably connected to the record sheet 1,

These tabs A 8 .may be sprung up from the 'but less permanently than the carbon sheet vthe bill sheet 2 are determined by providing on the right-hand margins of each-a series of designations from l up to themaximum, which is 25 in this case for the bill sheet and 31 for the record sheet. These designations indicate the line numbers, and enable any desired line on the bill sheet to be brought into register with any desired line on the record sheet. In this way,-a

number of bill sheets can be used succesv sively with a single record sheet, the bill sheet, in each instance, having a group of one or more items, while the record sheet shows all of the groups of items of the several bill sheets. The bill sheets can be rapidly attached and detached with respect to the record sheet 1, without disturbing the` carbon sheet '3, which is maintained onthe record'sheet. Still the carbon sheet can be readily turned back to permit inspection of the ledger or record sheet, and can be entirely detached from the record or ledger sheet when the latter is completed.

Thus, by having a collated unit of this type, the records of various accounts can be kept in a compact form and each account have a monthly statement or bill connected margins t thereto in a detachable manner, so that as each account is completed, the statement or bill for the period can be removed from each record copy and itsv place taken by a new blank statement or bill sheet properly positioned to comein register with the imtial portion of the remaining blank surface of the record sheet in each instance. collated units, in each case, form a complete and readily accessible record, not only for the period extant, but also for previous periods.

Variations may be resorted to within the scope of the invention, and portions of the improvements may be used without others.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim: o

1. A collated unit comprising a backing sheet which also constitutes a work-sheet, a

face sheet which constitutes a second worksheet, and an interleaved carbon sheet, said of attachment between said work-sheets! comprlsing a series of tabs cut from andl spaced along a side edge of one of said work- The `said lines of attachment.

sheets in alternate relation with intervening'portions of the body of said sheet, sald tabs and intervening portions comprising a friction grip for an inserted side margin of the other work-sheet, the adjacent end surfaces of said Work-sheets being plain so as to permit unrestricted endwise -adjustment 4of one with respect to the other.

2. The combination with a record sheet, of a carbon sheet and a statement sheet united to form a collated Work unit, said record sheet having slotted portions to catch said carbon sheet and hold the latter iiXedly to said record sheet, and also having gripping portions cut from the body of the record sheet to overlap said statement sheet, and cooperating with parts of the body of the record sheet to grip said statement sheet on its front and rear sides, so as to permit the adjustment of said statement sheet vertically to any predetermined position along said record sheet, whereby the same items may be written on relativelydisplaced lines on the record sheet and statement sheet simultaneously.

3. A collated unit comprising a statement sheet, a carbon sheet and a record sheet, as'- sembled with the carbon sheet separating the record and statement sheets, said record.l sheet having a plurality of longitudinallyextendin slots near one of the lengthwise ghereof, and also having a number 0f tabs extending in a lengthwise series near the same margin mentioned above and between said slots and said margin, said carbon sheet being secured to said record sheet by being passed in and out in alternation through successive slots, and said statement sheet being secured to said record Sheet by being inserted between the body portion of said record sheet and tabs of said series.

4. A collated unit comprising a backing sheet which also constitutes a work-sheet, a face sheet which constitutes a second worksheet, and an intermediate carbon sheet, said carbon sheet being detachably attached at one margin only to said backing sheet, the line of attachment being parallel with and at a slight distance from the lcorresponding margin of said backing sheet, and the corresponding margin of said face sheet being also detachably attached to said backing sheet, said attaching` means comprising a series of inwardly directed spaced tabs cut -rom the portion of said backing sheet lying between its line of attachment with said carbon sheet 'and its adjacent margin, the corresponding margin of said face sheet being inserted beneath said tabs and held in frictional engagement between the same and the intervening portions of the body of said work-sheet, said face sheet and said backing sheet being thus free for unrestricted relative adjustment in a direction parallel with 5. A collated unit comprising a backing4 sheet Which also constitutes a, Work-sheet, a face sheet which constitutes a second Worksheet, and an interleaved carbon sheet, said face sheet being detachably and adjustably attached to said backing sheet so as to hold said sheets in assembled relation, the means of attachment between said work-sheets coinprising a series of tabs cut from and spaced along an edge of one of said Work-sheets in alternate relation with intervening portions of the body of said sheet, said tabs and intervening portions comprising a friction grip for an inserted margin of the other Worksheet.

6. A backing sheet for a collating unit, said sheet comprising a, Work-sheet provided with a series of inwardly directed tabs cut from and spaced along one edge thereof in alternate relation With intervening portions of the body of said sheet, Asaid tabs and intervening body lportions comprising a friction grip adapted to receive an inserted mari gin of a second Work-sheet( 7. A backing sheet for a collatingl unit, said sheet comprising a Work-sheet provided with a series of inwardly directed tabs cut from and spaced along a longitudinal edge Vthereof in alternate relation with intervening portions of the body of said sheet, said Vsheet being also provided with one or more slits parallel with and adjacent to said series of tabs and lying between said tabs and JULIAN s. HEXTER.

Witnesses:

C; H. ALEXANDER, ADELINE MAY. 

